Tag: Video

Eight years ago I transferred my library of home videos to disk. Unfortunately the external, low-cost, you-get-what-you-pay-for Costco-Western-Digital drive subsequently failed, and unrecoverable, all was lost.  Well, I still had the tapes.  After filling a shelf of my bookcase with several of these failed devices (yes, hope springs eternal) I took my sledge hammer from the basement, smashed…